In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently ...

Bacteria can exist as individual cells, but there is strength in numbers. Many microbes form clusters called biofilms, little bacterial communities that take on features the single cells may not have, ...

The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result when a bunch of these bugs settle together on a surface to form a biofilm - a ...

Bacteria are everywhere in our world, and while the vast majority are harmless, some can cause dangerous infections. Bacteria, including bacterial pathogens, can also form tough communities called ...

Confocal laser scanning microscopy of Salmonella wet biofilm (WSB) and dry surface biofilm (DSB). The DSB displays a distinctive "sandwich-like" vertical structure, as revealed in the cross-sectional ...

Researchers use electrochemical signals to stimulate the proliferation of different cells in biofilms, which controls their growth. Biofilms are invisible communities of microscopic bacteria and can ...

Microscopy images of bacteria strains, one, top, producing fimbriae as normal and one with high level of MEcPP unable to produce the fimbriae. If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a ...